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Building your digital strategy
This course will help you to build an effective digital marketing strategy. Using the SOSTAC model as your framework, you will learn how to develop a realistic plan taking budgets and resources into account.
Digital Marketing: Engagement and retention
This course looks at the methods you can use to keep your customer close to your business.
Digital Marketing: Promotion and advertising
This course looks at the most cost-effective ways to create awareness of your products and services, using very little budget.
Business Skills
This course looks at the commercial and business principles underpinning every successful creative business.
Web Design
This course has been developed as an introduction to Web design technologies. You do not need to have any web development experience to take this course.
Adobe CS6+ Tutorials
This course is a series of tutorials in Adobe Illustrator and Adobe After Effects.
Photography Symposium "Shifting genres in reporting conflict"
This elearning course was developed from a symposium highlighting the evolution of photography as a genre. Take this course to learn five different perspectives on photojournalism!
Women in the Creative Industries
This elearning course was developed from a symposium on 'Why is it so hard to stay? Women and Work in the Creative Industries' which took place in Dundalk in May 2015. Hosted by Dundalk Institute of Technology and Honeycomb - Creative Works in collaboration with Maynooth University and the Centre for Media Research at Ulster University.
Honeycomb Creative Buzz Award Bootcamp
Honeycomb Creative Buzz Award Bootcamp took place at CultureTech 2014.
The Creative Process
This course uncovers key skills and attitudes for success in the creative industries.
Getting ahead in the creative industries
This course demonstrates the range of possibilities open to you in the creative industries.
Animation Skills
Learn about the animation industry and what you need to think about to get started.
PULSE - Your Creative Future
PULSE was a collaboration between Dundalk Institute of Technology and Cavan Institute, supported by Honeycomb - Creative Works. This was an event bringing industry and education together for an energetic day of creativity and enterprise.
Digital Content, The Digital Landscape And Artist Development
Across film and broadcast, music and interactive media, this event was a mix of panel sessions and a keynote led by industry specialists who provided a real life market analysis with a particular focus on interactivity, online and market trends for the future.
Norwich Sound & Vision Festival
Honeycomb took a delegation to the Norwich Sound & Vision Festival, where they held a networking reception as well as attended the conference and festival programme.
Broadcast Production & Post Forum 2014
Honeycomb took a delegation to the Broadcast Production & Post Forum, which took place at Bafta HQ in London in November 2014.
Rachel Seiffert & Paul Welsh - From page to Screen: Lore
How does a novel make it to the cinema? Novelist Rachel Seiffert and Glasgow-based film producer Paul Welsh discuss the long road to the big screen for Seiffert’s Booker Prize-shortlisted novel The Dark Room – a section of which has been adapted in the award-winning feature film Lore, directed by Cate Shortland.
Music Placement In Visual Media
This session with Mark Allen from ThinkSync Music looked at how this area of the industry works and offered a practical insight into music placement across film, TV, advertising and games. Mark was also be joined by musician Joe McAlinden to look at music placement from a composer’s perspective.
Radio Skills Workshop - Oban
In this workshop we covered local news gathering, presenting skills and creating community content. We delved into the key areas to consider in reporting news, discuss matters of impartiality and analyse techniques for presenting.
The Engine Room Pitch Workshop
The Engine Room Pitch is a unique workshop, which took place over two days providing a project development and pitching experience for documentary/factual filmmakers and producers seeking UK and international commissions and market intelligence.
Getting It Right Live - Workshop
This practical workshop saw the team from Kinetic Studios cover the ins and outs of getting a great live sound. This was a fully interactive session and featured a live soundcheck followed by a Q&A with experienced engineers looking at the practicalities of live performance from an artists perspective.
Health & Safety: Productions & Live Events
This was an accredited Health & Safety course for anyone working within live events and the television and film industry. Candidates walked away with an industry recognised certification that is often required for working in production and live events. The Production Safety Passport (PSP) is an industry-led scheme to support the mutual recognition of health and safety training in the live events and Creative Media Industries.
Guest Speaker - Paul Murray on TV Formats
Paul Murray is the Head of Formats at Scotland's largest indie, IWC Media. We were delighted he came to Stornoway to discuss the process of creating entertainment formats for TV through the projects he has worked on during his career.
Live Streaming Workshop in Fort William
Dougal Perman from Inner Ear (http://www.innerear.co.uk/) delivered this one day workshop on live streaming which looked at the end to end process, online platforms, technical knowhow and all you need to know to set up your own live streamed event.
Live Streaming Networking Session - Isle of Eigg
Dougal Perman of Inner Ear, producers of innovative live streaming event Sound to Sea, Walking Heads audio tours and internet radio station Radio Magnetic delivered this workshop discussion on getting your music and digital content to a wider and more engaged audience and using the digital space to learn and collaborate.
Documentary Making at UWS - Portrait of an Artist
The University of the West of Scotland host a week long work shop on Documentary making at their Dumfries Campus.
UWS Launch Event
The Honeycomb project is launched at the University of the West of Scotland's Creative Media Academy.
Networking event at UWS
The University of the West of Scotland's Creative Media Academy hosts a Networking
Transmedia Production Module at UWS
The University of the West of Scotland's Creative Media Academy plays host to a module on Transmedia Production.
Introduction to Music Production at UWS
The University of the West of Scotland's Creative Media Academy hosts a Workshop on Music Production at the Ayr Campus.
Digital Story Telling at UWS
The University of the West of Scotland's Creative Media Academy hosts a short course on Digital Story Telling
Animation Workshop UWS
The University of the West of Scotland plays host to the Honeycomb Animation Workshop.
Working With Actors at UWS
The University of the West of Scotland's Creative Media Academy hosts a work shop on 'Working with Actors' at the Ayr Campus.
Music Video Short Course at UWS
Music Video and Documentary maker Paul Fegen holds a short course on making Music Videos at the University of the West of Scotland's Creative Media Academy.
Short Film Production Course at UWS
The University of the West of Scotland's Creative Media hosted a short course on Short Film Production.
Building Campaigns Around Films at UWS
The University of the West of Scotland is the host for a short course on the art of Building Campaigns around films lead by Ben Kempes.
Intellectual Property at UWS
Anders Jensen of Murgitroyd leads a short course covering Interllectual Property at the University of the West of Scotland's Creative Media Academy in Ayr.
Meet the Industry at UWS Creative Media Academy
The University of the West of Scotland's Creative Media Academy in Ayr was the venue as a panel of industry figures passed on their knowledge.
Working Creatively with Sound at UWS
The University of the West of Scotland's Creative Media Academy in Ayr was the venue for a workshop on Working Creatively with Sound lead by Field Recordist Chris Watson & Audio Specialist Jez Riley French along with UWS own lecture in Film Making Peter Snowdon.
Transmedia Tools at UWS
A host of industry experts hold a workshop on Transmedia Tools at the University of the West of Scotland's Creative Media Academy in Ayr.
Music composition for Games
This elearning course is an introduction to the concept of music composition for games.